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<h1 class="topictitle1">Step 6: (Optional) Creating a VMware VM Group (Applicable to 1.6.0 and Later Versions)</h1>
<div><p>You can create a VM group and add VMs to the VM group to protect VM data in batches.</p>
<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Precautions</h4><p>A maximum of 40 VMs can be added to a VM group.</p>
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<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Procedure</h4><ol><li><span>Choose <span class="uicontrol" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002164654210__en-us_topic_0000002199964685_uicontrol1738217261378"><b><span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002164654210__en-us_topic_0000002199964685_text738292620372"><strong>Protection</strong></span> &gt; Virtualization &gt; VMware</b></span>.</span></li></ol><ol start="2"><li><span>Select a vCenter Server or ESXi host on the left of the page.</span></li><li><span>In the right pane, click the <span class="uicontrol"><b>VM Groups</b></span> tab.</span></li><li id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002164654210__en-us_topic_0000001805275992_li68751251144011"><span>Click <span class="uicontrol" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002164654210__uicontrol14660154662019"><b><span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002164654210__text5660846182016"><strong>Create</strong></span></b></span>.</span><p><p id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002164654210__p2040810281459">The <span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002164654210__text1435513311220"><strong>Create</strong></span> page is displayed.</p>
</p></li><li id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002164654210__li380017424418"><span>Set <strong id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002164654210__b669007142118">VM Group Name</strong>.</span></li><li><span>Set <span class="uicontrol"><b>VM Selection</b></span>.</span><p><ul><li><strong>Manual selection</strong>: You can select VMs as required.</li><li><strong>Automatic selection by the system based on specified rules</strong>: The system automatically selects VMs based on the compute location and VM tag and name filtering rules you set.</li></ul>
</p></li><li id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002164654210__li34633207207"><span>(Optional) Filter VMs by <span id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002164654210__text79742429225"><strong>Compute Location</strong></span> for VMs.</span></li><li id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002164654210__li20378140131918"><span>Select the resources to be added to the VM group.</span><p><div class="note" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002164654210__note459955319202"><img src="public_sys-resources/note_3.0-en-us.png"><span class="notetitle"> </span><div class="notebody"><p id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002164654210__p5599205352018">Resources that have been protected or added to other VM groups cannot be selected.</p>
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</p></li><li><span>Click <span class="uicontrol"><b><span><strong>OK</strong></span></b></span>.</span></li></ol>
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